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<td class="v">2:1</td>
<td>My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and hide my commandments with thee;</td>
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<td class="v">2:2</td>
<td>So that thou incline thine ear unto wisdom, and apply thine heart to understanding;</td>
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<td class="v">2:3</td>
<td>Yea, if thou criest after knowledge, and liftest up thy voice for understanding;</td>
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<td class="v">2:4</td>
<td>If thou seekest her as silver, and searchest for her as for hid treasures;</td>
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<td class="v">2:5</td>
<td>Then shalt thou understand the fear of the LORD, and find the knowledge of God.</td>
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<td class="v">2:6</td>
<td>For the LORD giveth wisdom: out of his mouth cometh knowledge and understanding.</td>
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<td class="v">2:7</td>
<td>He layeth up sound wisdom for the righteous: he is a buckler to them that walk uprightly.</td>
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<td class="v">2:8</td>
<td>He keepeth the paths of judgment, and preserveth the way of his saints.</td>
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<td class="v">2:9</td>
<td>Then shalt thou understand righteousness, and judgment, and equity; yea, every good path.</td>
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<td class="v">2:10</td>
<td>When wisdom entereth into thine heart, and knowledge is pleasant unto thy soul;</td>
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<td class="v">2:11</td>
<td>Discretion shall preserve thee, understanding shall keep thee:</td>
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<td class="v">2:12</td>
<td>To deliver thee from the way of the evil man, from the man that speaketh froward things;</td>
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<td class="v">2:13</td>
<td>Who leave the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness;</td>
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<td class="v">2:14</td>
<td>Who rejoice to do evil, and delight in the frowardness of the wicked;</td>
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<td class="v">2:15</td>
<td>Whose ways are crooked, and they froward in their paths:</td>
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<td class="v">2:16</td>
<td>To deliver thee from the strange woman, even from the stranger which flattereth with her words;</td>
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<td class="v">2:17</td>
<td>Which forsaketh the guide of her youth, and forgetteth the covenant of her God.</td>
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<td class="v">2:18</td>
<td>For her house inclineth unto death, and her paths unto the dead.</td>
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<td class="v">2:19</td>
<td>None that go unto her return again, neither take they hold of the paths of life.</td>
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<td class="v">2:20</td>
<td>That thou mayest walk in the way of good men, and keep the paths of the righteous.</td>
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<td class="v">2:21</td>
<td>For the upright shall dwell in the land, and the perfect shall remain in it.</td>
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<td class="v">2:22</td>
<td>But the wicked shall be cut off from the earth, and the transgressors shall be rooted out of it.</td>
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